I used the New King James Version growing up. I was raised Assemblies Of God.
When I started attending a UPCI church they told me the King James Version was the only dependable bible. I switched to the KJV and used it for the last couple of decades. Recently I have started using the World English Bible online. It reads like the KJV with out all the the's and thou's.
When I want to look up a specific verse that needs further study I go to Young's Literal Translation. I have always done this. Even in my KJV only days.
I have recently been using the Amplified Bible to look up certain verses. People who believe in easy believe-ism should look up
Romans 10. It brings on a whole different meaning when you read it in the Amplified version.
When there it a verse that speaks about eternity I like the Weymouth translation. It correctly talks about ages.
Below I have shown some examples of how different some verses read in the different translations.
World English Bible
Mathew 18
9 If your eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out, and cast it from you. It is better for you to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the Gehenna[a] of fire.
Footnotes:
a.
Matthew 18:9 or, Hell
Amplified Bible
Romans 10
8 But what does it say? The Word (God’s message in Christ) is near you, on your lips and in your heart; that is, the Word (the message, the basis and object) of faith which we preach,
9 Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
10 For with the heart a person believes (adheres to, trusts in, and relies on Christ) and so is justified (declared righteous, acceptable to God), and with the mouth he confesses (declares openly and speaks out freely his faith) and confirms [his] salvation.
11 The Scripture says, No man who believes in Him [who adheres to, relies on, and trusts in Him] will [ever] be put to shame or be disappointed.
Young’s Literal Translation
Mathew 12
31 Because of this I say to you, all sin and evil speaking shall be forgiven to men, but the evil speaking of the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men.
32 And whoever may speak a word against the Son of Man it shall be forgiven to him, but whoever may speak against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is coming.
Weymouth
John 3
16For so greatly did God love the world that He gave His only Son, that every one who trusts in Him may not perish but may have the Life of Ages.